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FloridaStateUniversity
A WILEY-INTERSCIENCEPUBLICATION
JOHNWILEY & SONS,New Y ork · London· Sydney · Toronto
Index
Actionfor a particle,52,55 Loweringsuffixes, 1,2, 4
Balancingofsuffixes, 1,3, 5 Maxwell'sequations, 41,57
Biancirelati ons,23, 25, 44, 47, 57 Mercury,32
Metric,9
Chargedensity, 42 Momentumof matter, 44,45
Charged matter,56
Chargedparticle, 55 Newtonianapproximation, 26,46
Conservationofelectricity, 43 Newton'sfust law, 1 5
Conservationofmatter, 45,47 Non-localization,62
Continuousmatter, 45 Nullgeodesh, 15
Contraction, 2 Nullvector, 13
Contravariantvector,1, 3
Coordinatewaves, 66 Outerproduct, 2
Covariantvector, 2,4
Curl,39 Partialintegration, 48,52, 5 9
Current,42 Particle,27,32,47
Poissonequation, 47
d'Alembertequation, 19, 64 28, Potential,27,42
Densityofmatter, 45 Poyntingvector, 55
Determinant,4 Productlaw, 19
Dimensions(number of), 25 Projection,11
Dummy suffix,2
Quotienttheorem, 8
Earth'sgravitational field,28
Emptyspace, 25, 30, 44 Redshift, 29,33
Energyof ic field,55 Riemann-Christoffeltensor,21
Energyof matter, 44,45 Riemannspace, 9
Flatspace, 22, 31 Scalarcurvature, 24
Flowof matter, 45 Scalardensity, 37
Fundamentaltensor ,7 Scalarfield, 7,45
Scalar product,1
Gausstheorem, 38,51 Solarsystem, 26,68
Geodesics,14,16, 27, 47 Staticfield, 26,46
Gravitationalpotential, 26 Stress-energytensor,54
Sun,29,32
oordinates, 40,64
Tensor,2,7
Innerproduct, 2 Tensordensity, 37
Timelikegeodesic, 15
Kinematicvariations, 51
Velocityfield, 45
Lagr angian,49, 52
Laplaceequation, 28 Weakfield, 27,46
Lorentzforce, 57 Whitedwarf, 29
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